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DR GUYONNE KALB



Contact Details

Organization: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/people/gkalb/home.html
Work: +61 3 8344 2095
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Room: 613
Level: 06
Building: Alan Gilbert Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
labour economics, social policy with regard to tax and transfer payments, labour supply and childcare, applied microeconom(etr)ics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand The University of Auckland Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Econometrics Erasmus University Rotterdam 31-Dec-1989
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 31-Dec-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Econometric Society paying member 01-Jan-1994
Member Australian Society of Labour Economists paying member 01-Dec-2000

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Economic Society of Australia Prize for best paper in the Economic Record in 2005 (joint with Denise Doiron) 26-Sep-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH SERVICES 2005-2009 Chief Investigator DEPARTMENT OF FAMILIES, HOUSING, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS,
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA,
DEPARTMENT OF FAMILIES, HOUSING, COMMUNITY SERVICE
Social Policy Research Services Agreements (DEPARTMENT OF FAMILIES, HOUSING, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS) 01/01/2005
The effects of the tax and social security system on labour supply and social welfare Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF THE MEDICAL WORKFORCE TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH AND EQUITY OF ACCESS: THE AUSTRALIAN LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF DOCTORS Chief Investigator NHMRC Health Services Research Grants 01/01/2007
Economic Modelling of the Nurses Labour Market in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/04/2007
Effects on Labour Supply, Savings and Welfare of the July 2007 Policy Changes to Superannuation and the Age Pension Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
CHILDCARE DEMAND ARISING FROM WELFARE TO WORK Chief Investigator FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES 05/01/2006
DEED OF AGREEMENT FOR THE PROVISION OF CONTRACT SERVICES IN RELATION TO THE SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PANEL Chief Investigator DEPT OF FAMILIES HOUSING COMMUNITY SERVICES & INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS 25/01/2008
PROVISION OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICES: STUDY TO SCOPE THE POSSIBLE USE OF MITTS TO SIMULATE THE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGES ON LABOUR SUPPLY Chief Investigator AUST FAIR PAY COMMISSION SECRETARIAT 01/03/2008
PROVISION OF USER SUPPORT SERVICES, MAINTENANCE, UPDATE AND ENHANCEMENT TO THE MELBOURNE INSTITUTE TAX AND TRANSFER SIMULATOR (MITTS) Chief Investigator DEPT OF TREASURY - ACT 24/11/2008

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
Development and Implement. of a behavioural simulation model Chief Investigator NEW ZEALAND TREASURY 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Abolishing the tax-free threshold in Australia: simulating alternative reforms
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Fiscal Studies
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 219-246
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Childcare Use and Parents' Labour Supply in Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 272-295
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  • The Effect of Financial Incentives on Labour Supply: Evidence for Lone Parents from Microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Fiscal Studies
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 285-325
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Reports

  • Abolishing the Tax-Free Threshold in Australia: Simulating Alternative Reforms


    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1048
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Teenage mothers’ income support, education and paid work: The dynamics of welfare participation


    Year: 2008
    Customer: DEEWR
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Comparing Welfare Change Measures with Income Change Measures in Behavioural Policy Simulations
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1030
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Disaggregation of CGE Results into Household Level Results through Micro-Macro Linkage: Analysing Climate Change Mitigation Policies from 2005 to 2030
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 9
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Intergenerational correlation of labour market outcomes
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Location Economics of Income Support Recipients: A comparison to the general population

    Year: 2008
    Customer: DEEWR
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Tax Policy Design and The Role of a Tax-Free Threshold
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 13/08
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
    Authors:
    URL - open access http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/wp/wp2008n13.pdf
  • Tax Policy Design and The Role of a Tax-Free Threshold
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 1046
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The Dynamics of Welfare Participation among Women Who Experienced Teenage Motherhood in Australia
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 22/08
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
    Authors:
    URL - open access http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/wp/wp2008n22.pdf
  • The effect of minimum wage changes on labour supply and income distribution
    Year: 2008
    Report No:: 2
    Publisher: Commonwealth of Australia(Canberra)
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    URL - open access http://www.fairpay.gov.au/fairpay/NewsPublications/Commissionedresearch/
    URL - open access http://www.fairpay.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/DAB45156-2FB1-4118-8083-903151FFEA82/0/AFPC_ResearchForumVol2_04b08.pdf

Publications in 2007

Books

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

Reports

  • Children, Labour Supply and Childcare: Challenges for Empirical Analysis


    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 15/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • The Case for Labour Supply Incentives: A Comparison of Family Policies in Australia and Norway


    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 27/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • The Effect of an Alternative Childcare Subsidy on Labour Supply: A Policy Simulation


    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 14/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Childcare Use and Parents’ Labour Supply in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 13/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Comparing Welfare Change Measures with Income Change Measures in Behavioural Policy Simulations
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 21/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • The Importance of Observing Early School Leaving and Usually Unobserved Background and Peer Characteristics in Analysing Academic Performance
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 5/07
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2006

Books

Journal Articles

  • Accounting for Population Ageing in Tax Microsimulation Modelling by Survey Reweighting


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Economic Papers
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 18-37
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  • Health Status and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Australia


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Health Economics
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 241-261
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  • Evaluation of Policy Options to Encourage Welfare to Work
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 273-292
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  • Income Distribution in Discrete Hours Behavioural Microsimulation Models: An Illustration
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Economic Inequality
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-76
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Labour Supply and Welfare Participation in the Australian Population: Using Observed Job Search to Account for Involuntary Unemployment
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ESAM06
    Conference Publication: ESAM06 Australiasian Econometrics Society Meetings
    Page numbers: 1-44
    Publisher: Econometric Society(New York University)
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Reports

  • Evaluation of Policy Options to Encourage Welfare to Work
    Year: 2006
    Report No:: 09/06
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Behavioural microsimulation modelling for tax policy analysis in Australia: experience and prospects
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 73-110
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • Demands for childcare and household labour supply in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Economic Record
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 254
    Page numbers: 215-236
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia(Burwood)
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  • Discrete hours labour suply modelling: specification, estimation and simulation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Economic Surveys
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 698-733
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Effects of child care demands and policies on household labour supply in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Policy Research Paper Series
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 1-77
    Publisher: Department of Family and Community Services(Canberra)
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  • Effects of the Australian New Tax System on Income Tax and Benefits: With and Without Labour Supply Responses
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 137-158
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  • Measuring welfare changes in labour supply models
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Manchester School
    Volume: 73
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 664-685
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • Movement between benefit types
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Melbourne Institute Report Series
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 1-68
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • The Melbourne Institute analysis of the 2005 federal budget
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Mercer - Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 19-21
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Behavioural microsimulation modelling with the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS): uses and extensions
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Quantitative tools for microeconomic policy analysis
    Conference Publication: Behavioural microsimulation modelling with the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator (MITTS): uses and extensions
    Page numbers: 247-292
    Publisher: Australian Government Productivity Commission(Melbourne)
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  • Evaluating policy reforms in behaviour tax microsimulation models
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 43
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Health status and labour force status of older working-age Australian men
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference of Economists 2005
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 37
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The effect of financial incentives on labour suply: evidence for sole parents from microsimulation and Quasi-Experimental evaluation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Conference Publication: Australian conference of Economists 2005
    Volume: 2005
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 43
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Accounting for population ageing in tax microsimulation modelling by survey reweighting
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: 935
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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    URL - open access http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001846/
  • Confidence intervals for policy reforms in behavioural tax microsimulation modelling
    Year: 2005
    Report No:: 936
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Health status and labour force status of older working-age Australian men
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Academics
    Report No:: 09/2005
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Evaluating the income redistribution effects of tax reforms in discrete hours models
    Year: 2004
    Book: Studies on economic well-being:essays in honor of John P. Formby, included in the series Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12
    Publisher: Elsevier(California)
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Journal Articles

  • Bracket creep, effective marginal tax rates and alternative tax packages
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Mercer - Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends
    Volume: 1
    Issue: .04
    Page numbers: 17-28
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Introduction: the use of smimulation models in policy analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Labour Economics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Murdoch University(Perth)
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  • The Melbourne Institute report on the 2004 federal budget
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Mercer - Melbourne Institute Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Trends
    Volume: 04
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 19-23
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Wage and employment rates in New Zealand from 1991 to 2001
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New Zealand Economic Papers
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-47
    Publisher: New Zealand Association of Economists
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Reports

  • Accounting for population ageing in tax microsimulation modelling by survey reweighting
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 26/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • An analysis of the Australian Labor Party's tax and family benefits package: using the Melbourne Institute tax and transfer simulator (MITTS)
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Report to the Australian Labor Party
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Confidence intervals for policy reforms in behavioural tax microsimulation modelling
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 32/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Demands for childcare and household labour supply in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 06/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Extension of the behavioural component of MITTS with predicted confidence intervals and household level output
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Report fot the Department of Family and Community Services
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Financial incentives for mothers to enter paid work: the current tax and transfer system
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Reort for the department of family and community services
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Health status and labour force participation: evidence from the HILDA data
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 04/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Job search success: comparing job offer rates in and out of employment
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 13/04
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Simulated values in the Melbourne Institute tax transfer simulator (MITTS) versus actual values
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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  • Updating the input for the Melbourne Institute tax and transfer simulator
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Parkville)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Delinquency and gender
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Applied Economic Letters
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 425-429
    Publisher: Routledge
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  • Flattening the effective marginal tax rate structure in Australia: policy simulations using the Melbourne Institute tax and transfer simulator
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 156-172
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Reports

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Demand for childcare services and labour supply in Australian families.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 204-213
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Reports

Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Moving from Unemployment to Permanent Employment: Could a Casual Job Accelerate the Transition?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Economic Review
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 415-436
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Reports

  • Delinquency and gender
    Year: 2001
    Customer: The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 13
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • Measuring welfare changes with nonlinear budget constraints in continuous and discrete hours labour supply models.
    Year: 2001
    Customer: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 799
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • The Melbourne Institute tax and transfer simulator (MITTS)
    Year: 2001
    Customer: The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 16
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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  • The effects of flattening the effective marginal rate structure in Australia: policy simulations using the Melbourne Institute Tax and Transfer Simulator
    Year: 2001
    Customer: The University of Melbourne
    Report No:: 10
    Publisher: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research(Melbourne)
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